{"id":149262,"date":"2026-04-07T14:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149262"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:28:16","slug":"us-and-iran-near-brink-of-escalation-as-trump-deadline-for-deal-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149262","title":{"rendered":"US and Iran near brink of escalation as Trump deadline for deal looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe United States and Iran appeared on the brink of a major escalation on Tuesday, with hours to go before a deadline set by US President Donald Trump for Tehran to accept a peace agreement, as Washington stepped up its threats and Pakistan renewed mediation efforts.<br \/>\nTrump escalated his rhetoric against Iran, threatening on Tuesday morning to wipe out the country\u2019s civilisation if Tehran fails to comply by 8pm EST.<br \/>\n\u201cA whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again,\u201d said the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/diplomacy\/article\/3349299\/trump-warns-whole-civilisation-will-die-tonight-iran-deadline-looms?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe United States and Iran appeared on the brink of a major escalation on Tuesday, with hours to go before a deadline set by&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149262"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}